The robber flies (Diptera, Asilidae) from Marambaia Island, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Abstract

During studies on tabanids (horse-fly) populations on Marambaia Island, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the authors collected specimens of robber flies, which are predatory flies belonging to the dipteran family Asilidae. Robber fly species were identified as Lecania leucopyga (Wiedemann, 1828), Mallophora calida (Fabricius, 1787), Triorla striola (Fabricius, 1805) and an undetermined specimen of Taurhynchus genus. Lecania leucopyga (Wiedemann, 1828) and Triorla striola (Fabricius, 1805) are recorded for the first time in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.

A unique robber fly species and genus of Asilinae from Argentina (Diptera: Asilidae)

“…Recent taxonomic contributions for the Asilinae in the Neotropical Region include revisionary works, descriptions of new genera and species, and new distribution records by Lamas and Mellinger (2011); Vieira (2012a, 2012b, 2012c, 2014); Vieira et al (2012); Vieira et al (2013); Vieira et al (2014); Vieira et al (2017); Vieira et al (2019); Köhler et al (2013); Artigas and Vieira (2014); Vieira and Ayala‐Landa (2014); Vieira and Rafael (2014); Vieira and Silva (2014); Dumbardon‐Martial (2015); Camargo et al (2016); Camargo et al (2019); Castro et al (2016); Guimarães et al (2016); Vieira and Rafael (2016); Ayala‐Landa (2019); Smit (2019); Barahona‐Segovia and Pañinao‐Monsálvez (2020); Estrada and Nápoles (2020); Sánchez (2020); Sánchez and Camargo (2021); and Yepes and Forero (2021).…”

Asilidae (Diptera) of two Atlantic Forest protected areas of Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil

“…Few Asilidae inventories have been published in Brazil. Guimarães et al 2016 provided the most recent records in the State of Rio de Janeiro (in the DANILO P. MOREIRA-JUNIOR and VALÉRIA C. MAIA municipality of Mangaratiba), where six species of robber flies were registered.…”